Your (small) mind may boggle, but really, a) it's not about AdSense, it's about being a major player in the medical industry (where you get paid by hospitals and insurance companies and what-have-you, not just advertisements), and b) even if it was, if you had (say) a propensity for heart disease, one could see ads for all those "heart healthy" oatmeal+etc things.
It's the socialeconomic structure that's broken, mostly because it *requires* penniless and poor and impoverished people in order to work. Not true. We can, today, reproduce most of the interesting work done by the Poor and Penniless people with machines, operated by (fewer) middle-class-ish people. And no one worries if poor, penniless machines suffer. However, this does mean that there are fewer opportunities available for unskilled labor. Society's real middle-long-term problem is to get those unskilled laborers a few Skills so they can do something useful and won't be completely obsoleted by a robot some day that's more cost-effective.
Unfortunately, there are some significant cultural barriers which can make this difficult. School, often seen as a prerequisite for many important skills, is never going to be as cool as sports (basketball) and hanging around with friends wasting time, so you need someone around who can really push children and youth to achieve - and many don't have that.
"It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion dollars IT budgeted annually, it represents a real loss of $60 billion in annual revenues to software companies," said Jim Johnson, Chairman, The Standish Group International, Boston, MA. Mmm. Then that's $60 billion dollars in broken-window spending saved every year!
Broken windows? Broken Windows (tm)? Something like that, anyway.
There are more effective and direct ways to correct Wikipedia than by posting Slashdot articles about every little error that worms its way into the system.
You'd think Slashdot was turning into The Register. Or a cheap tabloid. (Oh, but I repeat myself.)
The primary obstacle I see with their "malicious hardware" design is that of the actual malicious hardware creation. They create a FPGA processor that they can use to steal shadow password files, but are most modern processors purchased by most individuals or organizations able to be reproduced with FPGAs? Perhaps in the intermediate to distant future, but if you can't fake a new Intel or AMD chip, your targets seem limited...
What's it to Google (or a third party) if they mess up your pathetically-designed form? It's not like they're going to "accidentally purchase something" (like some people suggested) unless they have their robots equipped with billing information submission functions (somehow I doubt it).
From TFA, it may affect the publishing of source code under any license. The BSD license isn't going to get you very far if you could be violating the Apple NDA by publishing the source code. Furthermore, even if you did / could publish it legally, it won't do anyone else much good if they can't compile it for the iPhone because they haven't paid Apple $99 and gotten the magical seal of approval.
I say to go for the liberal arts, but if you do, definitely go for summer internships. I have a BS in CS from a decent-but-small liberal-artsy university (Wake Forest University), and it's all well and good, but I landed my first job out from school largely because of internships with IBM, as well as ample web development work on the side during the school year. (Also, the money came in handy paying for school.)
Grandparent is right in that you need to teach yourself lots of stuff at the liberal arts school. Do it. Play around with things and go the extra mile to get things programmed right and polished, not just right-enough-for-the-assignment. Structure things well, don't use global variables, validate input, pull out all the stops. This is practice for the real world.
And don't forget to take advantage of the liberal arts while you're there. Try to walk away with a minor in something interesting that you love, like Art or Music or whatever. You'll never get the same sort of chance to do these things again. (You'll get chances, mind you - I'm taking harp lessons alternate Wednesdays - but it's not the same. I'm glad for the art minor, though.:)
Easy. They did a SELECT DISTINCT Social_security_number FROM offenders.;)
(yes, uppercase S. One of their first lame attempts to sanitize it tried to do a case-sensitive replacement on the string "social_security_number", but apparently the uppercase still worked...)
Well, since you ask, when I was about, oh, two, and living in Philadelphia, I was helping my mother with baking in our apartment (to supplement our income). As such, my first word was apparently "hot" (like the oven). We couldn't even afford subway tokens (let alone a car). Now, admittedly, we were never quite at the point of poverty where we needed to have Crisco sandwiches (like I understand some of my mother's friends did as children), but I still think this was a reasonable level of "poverty".
It's not half so much the lack of money that does anyone's future in per se. It's the environment where you grow up, upbringing, who you have for role models. Which is correlated with money, sure (highly motivated, ambitious people tend to end up with money, and as parents usually drive their children fairly effectively) but it's not the same thing. Of particular note, from a public policy perspective, it indicates that throwing money at the problem (even in some of the best possible ways) is no panacea. If you want poor, underprivileged children to learn, you need to to do more than simply provide opportunities - you need get someone in there to motivate them to do it. There's no one simple way to get this to happen, though.
I suspect that the most limiting factor is not so much "economic" in nature, but rather that there are strong cultural influences in many "African-American" communities which place very little value on the sort of things which are necessary to successfully pursue a college degree and subsequent employment in the video game industry.
In short, Studying and computer-programming are generally not cool. Basketball, and sports, on the other hand, are.
I read the article on Higgs, and it is entirely conjecture based on specified rumor after rumor. Is this TMZ.com? It's a summary of a physics conference. This is news of physicists describing to each other the state of the art and what they're busy conjecturing, considering, and hoping to prove. Perhaps you were looking for Nature?
How is the sale of a Canadian company to US interests ever a net benefit for Canada?
Why exactly should it have to be a net benefit for anyone except McDonald, Dettwiler, and their associates (i.e. whoever the owners of the company may happen to be)? What right exactly does the government have to stop a sale like that?
Is "ownership" one of those American concepts like "free speech" that the Canadians don't care for these days?
Well, if Silent Spring was shown to be a crock, and people still bring it up as a bogeyman.... then yes, it's just like the vaccines (shown to be a crock, but with people still bringing it up as a bogeyman...) This just makes the comparison more valid! =)
Well, Angband and Nethack and its Rogue-like friends manage pretty well. (Not quite WoW-level, but they don't have quite the same resources behind them.) They have different dynamics, though. The WOW dynamics, indeed, won't work for permadeath.
When death is a big deal, you take a lot more precautions to avoid death. In rogue-like games, you will typically try to maintain a stockpile of 'escapes' and 'healing', the two primary ways Not To Die in a tight spot. You also pay attention to various sorts of Detection - ways of avoiding tight spots altogether. And, of course, armor and resistances of various sorts. WoW does feature some moderate amounts of healing, but fewer escapes, and much less detection. There is also a disparity with the tactic of simply Running Away. In a game like Angband, the dungeon is infinite, and randomly generated each time, so if there's a room stuffed full of Big Evil Nasties in front of you, well, you just turn around and head another direction; there will surely be treasure later to make up for the loss. Nethack has random-but-finite dungeons, but it's still usually feasible to avoid tough spots until you're better prepared. And in either, there are often a variety of ways around a spot that could avoid that trouble altogether. (WoW, in the meantime, generally litters important areas with baddies, and doesn't provide sneaky back routes.) Here notice another facet of a randomly-generated world: in Angband and Nethack there are very few Important Areas. Most are throwaways.
I guess that the key thing, though, to avoid repeating Tedium, you simply need to avoid Repetition and Tedium in the beginning altogether, as much as you can. To make a good game, rather than just a decent one that's good and long.
Sure if you would just get off your cell phone, get out of the left hand lane and drive the speed limit. I would not have to tailgate. Oddly enough, driving below the speed limit in the left-hand lane doesn't seem to be the problem in these parts. Going faster than the speed limit, especially in the left-hand lane, is another matter...
Eeeevery once in a while driving in the left lane I find myself being high-beamed as someone comes up behind me, and I look down and notice, "holy cow, I'm going nearly in the 65 zone - better pay more attention to speed and slow down - wait, there's some guy back there who doesn't think I'm going fast ENOUGH? Wow."
Also, I'm not sure why you need to tailgate cell phone users. Do explain.
The problem is that if you need to do all that insane packet accounting in all your routers and switches, you're going to end up billed ten times more, not a tenth as much.
So it would be safe to say that if nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, we could witness objects
distancing themselves at almost 3 times the speed of light, considering the addition of each:
- object A can travel "just a bit slower" than the speed of light in one direction
- space can stretch "just a bit slower" than the speed of light
- object B can travel "just a bit slower" than the speed of light in opposite direction from object A
Interesting isn't it? Unfortunately, you can't do simple addition when you're dealing with relativistic velocities. The details of the math are beyond me, but in essence: velocity is a defined distance traveled over a certain amount of time. And, under relativity, time is not constant.
Consider having two probes going away from Earth at 60%-lightspeed in opposite directions, and they want to communicate with each other. At 120%-c speeds, you might think it's impossible. But each of them could communicate back and forth with Earth at mere 60%-c speeds. If you do the actual math you work out that they appear to each other as moving away at something-like-80%c (that figure is totally made up, but you should get the idea anyway).
This from someone who lives in a country home to the world's worst health care system and highest incarceration rates. Well, the quality of any health care system depends on what you think is good. If by "good" you mean "I am able to obtain lots of medical care at trivial cost to myself", then the US is not that great. If, however, you mean something that keeps the nation's life expectancy high and in general allows for prompt, effective care, then I believe the US is well above average. Note that this is in very much line with GP's "personal responsibility" agenda.
I'm unsure about the GP's contention regarding psychologists, and will not comment upon it or the incarceration rate here.
I'm trying to imagine a situation that would demand the wringing of a rabbit's neck. I mean I hate easter too, but DAMN You, sir, are clearly not familiar with
Sluggy Freelance.
So, I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, and they're just rolling out Translink, a contactless multi-agency farecard system - and about time, what with BART+Muni+SamTrans+AC Transit+Caltrain+VTA+Golden Gate Transit+goodness knows what else flying around here. Is it likely to be affected? (Will there be (more) delays over this matter?) Can I buy some cheap junk to hack my farecard?*
(*I am not actually interested in hacking my fare card, as such an action is not only unethical and wrong, but seems risky. And the transit fares I pay are dwarfed by my rent anyway...)
Oh yes, US is so much better, with its Demoblican/Republicrat duopoly... Yeah. Bush administration does something that a bunch of people don't like, and some of those Democrats are SCREAMING THEIR LUNGS OUT about how he's the WORST PRESIDENT EVAR!!! and such. They dump fliers around, they poke fun of the administration in late-night comedy shows, blogs, and The New York Times; they stage marches, rallies, protests. And they don't get sent to jail even for a few moments except in a few incidents such as when someone is doing the screaming right up in front of the Prez trying to make a speech, AND when THAT happens they get tons of media attention about it to boot.
China, if you try to distribute pictures of the tank in Tiannamen Square, you're very quietly taken off to goodness-knows-where and disappear.
Does the US need improvement? Quite possibly. Is it "so much better"? You'd better believe it, pal!
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Your (small) mind may boggle, but really, a) it's not about AdSense, it's about being a major player in the medical industry (where you get paid by hospitals and insurance companies and what-have-you, not just advertisements), and b) even if it was, if you had (say) a propensity for heart disease, one could see ads for all those "heart healthy" oatmeal+etc things.
Unfortunately, there are some significant cultural barriers which can make this difficult. School, often seen as a prerequisite for many important skills, is never going to be as cool as sports (basketball) and hanging around with friends wasting time, so you need someone around who can really push children and youth to achieve - and many don't have that.
Broken windows? Broken Windows (tm)? Something like that, anyway.
You'd think Slashdot was turning into The Register. Or a cheap tabloid. (Oh, but I repeat myself.)
The primary obstacle I see with their "malicious hardware" design is that of the actual malicious hardware creation. They create a FPGA processor that they can use to steal shadow password files, but are most modern processors purchased by most individuals or organizations able to be reproduced with FPGAs? Perhaps in the intermediate to distant future, but if you can't fake a new Intel or AMD chip, your targets seem limited...
What's it to Google (or a third party) if they mess up your pathetically-designed form? It's not like they're going to "accidentally purchase something" (like some people suggested) unless they have their robots equipped with billing information submission functions (somehow I doubt it).
From TFA, it may affect the publishing of source code under any license. The BSD license isn't going to get you very far if you could be violating the Apple NDA by publishing the source code. Furthermore, even if you did / could publish it legally, it won't do anyone else much good if they can't compile it for the iPhone because they haven't paid Apple $99 and gotten the magical seal of approval.
Galileo!
Grandparent is right in that you need to teach yourself lots of stuff at the liberal arts school. Do it. Play around with things and go the extra mile to get things programmed right and polished, not just right-enough-for-the-assignment. Structure things well, don't use global variables, validate input, pull out all the stops. This is practice for the real world.
And don't forget to take advantage of the liberal arts while you're there. Try to walk away with a minor in something interesting that you love, like Art or Music or whatever. You'll never get the same sort of chance to do these things again. (You'll get chances, mind you - I'm taking harp lessons alternate Wednesdays - but it's not the same. I'm glad for the art minor, though. :)
(yes, uppercase S. One of their first lame attempts to sanitize it tried to do a case-sensitive replacement on the string "social_security_number", but apparently the uppercase still worked...)
It's not half so much the lack of money that does anyone's future in per se. It's the environment where you grow up, upbringing, who you have for role models. Which is correlated with money, sure (highly motivated, ambitious people tend to end up with money, and as parents usually drive their children fairly effectively) but it's not the same thing. Of particular note, from a public policy perspective, it indicates that throwing money at the problem (even in some of the best possible ways) is no panacea. If you want poor, underprivileged children to learn, you need to to do more than simply provide opportunities - you need get someone in there to motivate them to do it. There's no one simple way to get this to happen, though.
In short, Studying and computer-programming are generally not cool. Basketball, and sports, on the other hand, are.
Why exactly should it have to be a net benefit for anyone except McDonald, Dettwiler, and their associates (i.e. whoever the owners of the company may happen to be)? What right exactly does the government have to stop a sale like that? Is "ownership" one of those American concepts like "free speech" that the Canadians don't care for these days?
Well, if Silent Spring was shown to be a crock, and people still bring it up as a bogeyman.... then yes, it's just like the vaccines (shown to be a crock, but with people still bringing it up as a bogeyman...) This just makes the comparison more valid! =)
When death is a big deal, you take a lot more precautions to avoid death. In rogue-like games, you will typically try to maintain a stockpile of 'escapes' and 'healing', the two primary ways Not To Die in a tight spot. You also pay attention to various sorts of Detection - ways of avoiding tight spots altogether. And, of course, armor and resistances of various sorts. WoW does feature some moderate amounts of healing, but fewer escapes, and much less detection. There is also a disparity with the tactic of simply Running Away. In a game like Angband, the dungeon is infinite, and randomly generated each time, so if there's a room stuffed full of Big Evil Nasties in front of you, well, you just turn around and head another direction; there will surely be treasure later to make up for the loss. Nethack has random-but-finite dungeons, but it's still usually feasible to avoid tough spots until you're better prepared. And in either, there are often a variety of ways around a spot that could avoid that trouble altogether. (WoW, in the meantime, generally litters important areas with baddies, and doesn't provide sneaky back routes.) Here notice another facet of a randomly-generated world: in Angband and Nethack there are very few Important Areas. Most are throwaways.
I guess that the key thing, though, to avoid repeating Tedium, you simply need to avoid Repetition and Tedium in the beginning altogether, as much as you can. To make a good game, rather than just a decent one that's good and long.
Also, I'm not sure why you need to tailgate cell phone users. Do explain.
The problem is that if you need to do all that insane packet accounting in all your routers and switches, you're going to end up billed ten times more, not a tenth as much.
Consider having two probes going away from Earth at 60%-lightspeed in opposite directions, and they want to communicate with each other. At 120%-c speeds, you might think it's impossible. But each of them could communicate back and forth with Earth at mere 60%-c speeds. If you do the actual math you work out that they appear to each other as moving away at something-like-80%c (that figure is totally made up, but you should get the idea anyway).
I went to the 3-D DLP version (not IMAX) at the Metreon in San Francisco, and I did not have to give back the glasses.
Don't worry. The Replicators run on JavaScript.
I'm unsure about the GP's contention regarding psychologists, and will not comment upon it or the incarceration rate here.
(*I am not actually interested in hacking my fare card, as such an action is not only unethical and wrong, but seems risky. And the transit fares I pay are dwarfed by my rent anyway...)
China, if you try to distribute pictures of the tank in Tiannamen Square, you're very quietly taken off to goodness-knows-where and disappear.
Does the US need improvement? Quite possibly. Is it "so much better"? You'd better believe it, pal!